Title of Fellowship | Skull Base and Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery |
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Contact Name for Applications | Kesh Reddy |
Fellowship Type |
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Location | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
Date Fellowship Established | 07/30/2019 |
Fellowship Director | Kesava (Kesh) Reddy |
Participating Faculty | Almunder Algird, Neurosurgery |
Fellowship Information | |
Duration | 12 months |
Required Prior Training Program |
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Required Prior Training Program Other | none |
Accept Foreign Medical Graduates (outside US & Canada) | Yes |
Foreign Medical Graduates Eligibility Requirements | Completion of neurosurgery training, Successful completion of the required examinations for the country of origin and Eligibility of License in the Province of Ontario, Canada |
Residency Training in US/Canada Required | No |
USMLE |
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Percentage of Fellow Workload that is Skull Base | 50% |
Number of Fellows Accepted Per Year | 1 |
Salaried Position | Yes- contact Program Director for more information |
Night and Weekend Call | Yes |
Estimated Nights Per Month | 4-6 |
Clinical Work | |
Average Operative Skull Base Cases Per Year | 130 |
Open Cranial Base | |
Anterior | 10 |
Anterolateral/Infratemporal | Data not available |
Lateral (temporal bone) | 10 |
Posterior | 20 |
Endonasal Cranial Base | |
Pituitary/Sella | 60 |
Sagittal Plane (excluding pituitary) | 20 |
Temporal Bone | |
Transtemporal/ Transcochlear | Data not available |
Middle fossa | <5 |
Retrosigmoid | 10 |
Craniofacial Anomalies/ Reconstructive | |
Craniofacial Anomalies/ Reconstructive | Data not available |
Trauma | |
Craniocervical | |
Transcervical | <5 |
Transoral | Data not available |
Endonasal | 70 |
Reconstruction | |
Cranioplasty | Available as needed |
Regional, Pedicled Flap Repair | Data not available |
Free Flap Repair | Available as needed |
Stereotactic Radiosurgery | |
Gammaknife | not available at our center |
Cyberknife | 50 |
Cerebral Vascular Surgery | |
Cyberknife | Data not available |
Transcranial | Data not available |
Endovascular | Data not available |
Anatomical Dissection Laboratory | Available for use of the fellow |
Laboratory Research Opportunities | This is a new fellowship. Research is encouraged but anticipated to be mostly clinical and possibly cadaver based |
Application Deadline | 12/31/2019 |
Decision Deadline | 01/01/2020 |
Previous Fellows | This is a new fellowship. N0 recent fellows recently though we have had an informal fellowship dating back several years |
Additional Features of the Fellowship | The MIS component would included ventriculoscopic and MIS spinal decompressive procedures. These would add up to approximately 70 cases per year |
Committee on Advanced Subspecialty Training (CAST) Accredited | No |
How to apply | email the fellowship director at [email protected] |